{"id":14607,"date":"2014-01-28T03:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=14607"},"modified":"2014-01-28T03:00:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T08:00:29","slug":"a-gentlemen-never-asks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14607","title":{"rendered":"A Gentlemen Never Asks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2014\/01\/kelvin-rutherford-and-the-age-of-the-earth-i-the-myth.html\">Kelvin, Rutherford and the Age of the Earth: I, the Myth<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This all seems clear enough. Rutherford is referring to Kelvin\u2019s cooling argument. But this argument is invalid, because it assumes no new source of heat, and such a source exists, namely radioactivity.  Or so says the popular myth. The truth is more complex, and more interesting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelvin, Rutherford and the Age of the Earth: I, the Myth This all seems clear enough. Rutherford is referring to Kelvin\u2019s cooling argument. But this argument is invalid, because it assumes no new source of heat, and such a source &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14607\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}